The Slave

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 18

“Bruise Bruise, Bruise, you will never stop, Eight times you have tried to escape and eight times you have been caught. When will you stop?

“Never! I will never stop, I will keep trying until I leave this place. I was not born to be a slave, and I can never agree to remain a slave” Bruise said

” Oh what courage. What boldness, a boldness that will lead you to your death. Oh Bruise, I like you because you are very hard working and that is the reason I’ve kept you all this year’s and not sold you but you keep giving me reasons to do so.”

“Even if you sell me I will not stop trying to leave this place. You call us animals, you call us monkeys simply because of our colour. Is it your colour that makes you special? You may be white, but your heart is as dirty as a pig. You are the animals not us, not me. Bruise bursted out.

“Are you talking to me Bruise?” Master asked.

“My name is not Bruise, my name is Itoro-abam, Itoro, Itoro, don’t call me Bruise.

“Enough, I don’t want to hear any word from him anymore. Listen Bruise, the bruises in your body have not taught you a lesson, now I will show you who the master is.

“Dad please stop it, stop it.”

“Someone please take little Tom my son away and lock him up in my office”

Little Tom was not surprised, this was not the first time his dad have locked him up. So he didn’t struggle, he gently followed his father’s thugs away. Master Tom ordered for Bruise to be brought before him. And he was brought and forcefully bent in his knees. The whole place was filled with slaves and whites.

“I am a generous man, let the world see and know that I am a generous man. And so I will give this rude slave of mine an opportunity to apologise to me. Bruise, apologise to me and kiss my foot, and then I shall forgive this rudeness and act you potrayed today.

Bruise looked him in the eye and shouted “NEVER”

“Then so be it, let no one say I was not kind. Boys have him gagged” master Tom ordered.

And while Bush was trying to understand what the master meant, the boys brought a big and very long screw driver. They pressed Bruise down and pierced him with a sharp knife on both part of his cheeks and then they passed a big screw through the pierced hole inside his mouth and through the other cheek and then they screwed it up. Then they used another iron that looked like a cup and covered his mouth with it. Bruise was screaming in pains but he couldn’t even cry out because his mouth had already been sealed.

He was also chained on his waist and on both legs and s club was put on his head to ensure that too much movement of the head would cause him pains.

“That is what happens when you try to challenge your master.” It was smart talking to Bush.

“Henceforth you will no longer talk or eat until you realize that I, only I am your master. Now flog him. Masters ordered

And the thugs he called boys brought out thier whips and descended on Bruise